Re:In search of a better job scheduler
by mjw1007 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:40PM
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better specs for jobs
dependencies, timeouts, resource policies and retries without hacky wrappers and boilerplate
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This is what I miss.
There's a strange gap in traditional Unix there, compared to other time-sharing systems. I have a feeling that if Unix had had a primitive job manager then by 1990 there would have been a pile of Gnu extensions and by 2000 there would have been people reinventing it, and GUIs that looked a bit like what you get to monitor print queues.
dependencies, timeouts, resource policies and retries without hacky wrappers and boilerplate »
This is what I miss.
There's a strange gap in traditional Unix there, compared to other time-sharing systems. I have a feeling that if Unix had had a primitive job manager then by 1990 there would have been a pile of Gnu extensions and by 2000 there would have been people reinventing it, and GUIs that looked a bit like what you get to monitor print queues.